Oil-can.



E. YOUNG.

OIL CAN.

APPMCATION HLED APR. 7, 1916'.

1,214,740. Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

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EDWARD YOUNG, OF JEFFERSONVILLIE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 AUBURN W.

DUFROF WASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, 01-1110.

OIL-CAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

Application filed April 7, 1916. Serial No. 89,619.

[0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jeffersonville, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Oil-Can, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide novel means whereby a spring may be assembled with an oil can, the function of the spring being to reinforce the resilient or yieldable bottom of the can.

t is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure 1 shows in side elevation. an oil can embodying the present invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 2 but showing the arrangement of the parts after the spring has been assembled with the body portion of the can against accidental removal. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-l of Fig. 3.

The can to which the present invention is applied may be of any desired sort, but by way of illustration there is shown in the drawings, a can including a body 1 and a top 2, the top 2 being movable, at least so far as the process of manufacture is concerned. Threaded as shown at 3 upon the top 1 is a spout 4 of any desired configuration.

The numeral 5 denotes a yieldable resilient bottom which is downwardly bulged. The bottom 5 may be connected to the body 1 of the can in any desired manner, as by means of a depending flange 6 constituting a part of the bottom and secured to the body 1. Adjacent the bottom 5, the body 1 of the can is equipped with an inwardly projecting circumscribing rib 7. The rib 7 preferably is in the form of a corriigation, made by pressing the constituent material of the body 1 of the can inwardly. The ends of the rib 7 are spaced apart to define a mouth 8.

The numeral 9 indicates a downwardly bowed spring adapted to coact with the bottom 5.

In practical operation, one end 10 of the spring 9 is inserted beneath the corrugation or rib 7, the other end 11 of the spring 9 being passed downwardly through the mouth 8. This detail Will. be understood clearly from Fig. 2. Subsequently the spring 9 is turned with the vertical axis ofthe can as a center, thereby to' engage the end 11 of the spring 9 beneath the rib or corrugation 7. Note Fig. 3. The body 1 of the can then is dented inwardly as shown at 12. to form a projection lying within the mouth 8. This projection 12 serves to prevent either the end 10 or the end. 11 of the spring 9 from passing upwardly through the. mouth 8.

All parts of the device hereinbefore disclosed preferably are made of metal.

The utility of the invention is obvious, since it is well known that when the resilicnt bottom 5 is pushed toward the spout l to expel the oil, the bottom sometimes fails to spring back to the position shown in Fig. 1. The spring 9 will obviate such a contin- 'gency.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is An oil can comprising a body; an oil outlet carried by the body; a resilient bottom mounted on the body, the body being pressed inwardly to form a circumscribing rib disposed above the bottom; and a'spring strip resting on the bottom and having its ends engaged beneath the rib, the ends of the rib being spaced apart to define an opening through which one end of the spring may be inserted beneath the rib after the other end of the spring has been mounted beneath a remote part of the rib, the body being dented inwardly between the ends of the rib to -the rib, through the opening, When the form a projection aiined With the rib ciras my own, I have hereunto aflixed my sigcumferentially of the body, and constituting nature in the presence of two Witnesses. means for preventin either end of the 1 spring from being diszngaged from beneath EDVARD X OUNG' Witnesses:

H. M. BLUE,

spring is rotated.

ROY E. YOUNG.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Iatents, Washington, D. G. 

